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Cardi B is again together with her first solo document in three years, and her new tune got here with a little bit of shade towards her longtime rival Nicki Minaj.
Cardi, 31, kicked off her return to the rap world on Friday, March 1, releasing “Like What (Freestyle),” a tune that samples Missy Elliott’s 1999 hit “She’s a Bitch.” Cardi made use of the pattern in additional methods than one, rapping, “First, that bitch hate me, then this bitch hate me / And by some means, they hyperlink up they usually grow to be pals, like, how?”
Followers shortly pounced on the road, presuming it was about JT of the rap duo Metropolis Women. Cardi joined JT, 31, and Yung Miami for 2018’s “Twerk,” however the two had a public falling-out. Cardi referred to JT as Minaj’s “lap canine” in 2022, whereas JT advised Cardi to “go fetch an actual expertise.”
Cardi seemingly made a extra direct reference to Minaj, 41, later within the verse. “You dumb, you sluggish, you wildin’ / Obtained your first pair of Ricks [Rick Owens shoes], now you stylin’?” she raps. “Every little thing you bought, I had 5 years earlier than / I put it on the ‘Gram (haha, haha) ‘fore it even hit the shop, look.”
Nicki Minaj and Cardi B weren’t all the time enemies. Earlier than the rappers engaged in an explosive brawl in September 2018, the women have been as soon as pleasant, even collaborating on a tune collectively — however in some unspecified time in the future, issues went downhill. Watch the video to relive the moments that contributed to the reigning rap queens’ long-running feud! Casting […]
Coincidentally, Minaj bought her first solo Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 tune with “Tremendous Freaky Woman” in 2022, 5 years after Cardi topped the charts with “Bodak Yellow.” Minaj topped the Sizzling 100 beforehand with “Say So” with Doja Cat and “Trollz” with 6ix9ine. Cardi has 4 Sizzling 100 No. 1 hits along with “Bodak Yellow”: “I Like It” with Dangerous Bunny and J Balvin, “Women Like You” with Maroon 5, “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion and her solo document “Up.”
“Like What (Freestyle)” additionally has moments of affection in it. Within the accompanying video, directed by Cardi’s estranged husband, Offset, she wearing a chinchilla coat over a skimpy bikini for one scene. Followers shortly noticed it as a loving homage to Lil’ Kim‘s outfit in her “Got here Again for You” music video in 2003.
On the finish of the “Like What” video, Cardi teased that that is “only the start,” giving followers hope that her long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Invasion of Privateness will lastly arrive. Cardi has been teasing her sophomore album for years. In August 2023, she advised Vogue México y Latinoamérica that she would “put out my subsequent solo single” whereas placing the ending touches on the album.
Cardi B and Offset’s relationship has been a whirlwind with a secret wedding ceremony, a dishonest scandal and two kids collectively. The rappers tied the knot in September 2017 after having their first date at Tremendous Bowl LI in Houston in February of that 12 months. They introduced in July 2017 that they have been anticipating a child […]
“Everybody all the time tells me I ought to put the document out now,” she stated, “however I all the time allow them to know I’m not going to attend lengthy in any case these singles. So keep tuned as a result of it’s popping out very quickly.”
One month later, whereas talking with radio persona Ebro Darden, Cardi defined that she felt nervousness to match the success of Invasion of Privateness, and that has delayed its launch. “For this album, I’m simply holding it as a result of I really feel like I’m lacking a few issues,” she stated. “Then on prime of that, the whole lot simply needs to be, like, excellent from the whole lot as a result of I really feel like persons are anticipating a lot.”
